OpenEuphoria

RE: Re:

• Posted by chris_esen at hotmail.com Apr 01, 2001
• 516 views

Hey -

I'm working on a database program with 300+ fields for each individual. 
I suspect an average of 25 individuals to be entered into the database 
at once. It's not a complicated program at all. Basicly I'm going to 
sort >all< of this information after I compare it against the other 
individual's fields, then display the top N winners for each group (each 
group has a table). Now there's more to it, like some individuals may 
not have groups while others will and blah blah blah. The rest of the 
program sets the MAX and MIN limit for the information being entered 
into the fields. It's gonna be chock full of UI.

Later,
Chris

Irv Mullins wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Apr 2001, chris_esen at hotmail.com wrote:
> 
> > Hey Ray and Guilermo,
> > 
> > It's funny you mentioned Visual Basic as being bloatware. I once made a 
> > HUGE database program for a client, and it easily broke 25 Megs. I think 
> > 
> > 12mb of it was for dependencies, such as DAO. Not only was it large, it 
> > was a resource hog. Also, I consider using Delphi, but my first 
> > programming language was C++, and we were taught to hate Pascal. ;) 
> > Delphi and Object Pascal aren't bad though.
> 
> Delphi shares some of the same problems as VB, in that there are tons 
> of DLL's that must go along with even a simple program. Euphoria 
> programs can be bound into single small files, 200 ~ 400 k, which can 
> easily be sent to customers via e-mail. Makes updates and changes 
> very pleasant.  Also, I have used Delphi since the first version, and 
> the later versions tend to be increasingly flaky - to the point that 
> I've 
> lost source code more than once due to Delphi's misbehavior.
> 
> > I never do any Database programming in C or C++, so I may use Visual 
> > Basic, and Java just isn't fast enough for this project.
> 
> > I think I'll pick up on Euphoria this evening after lunch and see if it 
> > will be suitable for my needs. I have a week for planning, so if this 
> > goes sour I'll submit to Visual Basic or COBOL (haha, j/k).
> 
> If you could give a little more detailed description of the scope of the 
> 
> project, maybe someone here could confirm that Euporia worked for 
> them on a similar project, or perhaps that it would be unsuitable.
> 
> 
> > >  Ray Smith wrote:
> 
> > > >From my personal view I wouldn't start a major development project until
> > > Win32Lib is a little more stable.  Others might disagree??
> 
> I have a Euphoria program that has been running 12hrs a day for the past 
> two 
> years without (cross fingers) losing any data , or requiring any 
> database
> rebuild.  I used Dave Cuny's original Win32Lib to build the program and 
> have 
> kept the code updated to run with the latest Win32lib version. So far, 
> the 
> changes have been minimal, and there have been no problems associated 
> with bugs in Win32Lib. Of course, I avoid taking advantage of the newly 
> added
> functions  for a while, until there can be bug reports and fixes posted 
> here.
> --
> Regards,
> Irv
> 
>